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Sumer / Akkad
Babylon I / II
Hittites / Assyrians/ Phoenicians / Lydians
Monotheism in Mesopotamia
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I was the world's first civilization in the Mesopotamian region.
What is Sumer?
100
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
100

The secret that the Hittites tried desperately to keep.

What is the secret of ironworking?

100

Commonly referred to by the expression, "drip over skill", this Persian king was responsible for constant wars against the Greeks.

Who is Xerxes I?

100
A temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
200

This process that was developed by the Sumerians allowed water to be moved from the rivers to their farms fields.

What is irrigation?

200

This group was the first group to map the stars and building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

What is the Neo- Babyloneans / Chaldeans?

200

DAILY DOUBLE: The Phonecians were not an empire, rather they were a:

What is a merchant power?

200

Darius I of Persia decided to make Persia a monotheistic empire using this religion.

What is Zoroastrianism?
200
A city that is also a separate independent state with its own god or goddess and government.
What is a city-state?
300
I was one of the most legendary historical figures, I was a heroic priest-king from the Sumerian city-state of Uruk
Who was Gilgamesh?
300

"If the woman has not been careful but has gadded about, neglecting her house and belittling her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water."

what is HAMMURABI'S CODE?

300
A brutal civilization that was very war like and would often conquer the civilizations around them.
What is Assyria?
300

I was the first leader of the Hebrews.

Who was ABRAHAM?

300

On October 14, 1912, this United States president was shot while giving a campaign re-election speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?

400
Mesopotamia is often referred to as the ________ because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400

DAILY DOUBLE: I was the king of the Chaldeans who ordered the construction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Who was Nebuchadnezzar?

400

The Lydians shifted from a general barter system to a system using what?

What are coins? or What is money?

400

Coming in at ~1250 miles long, this helped the Persian empire to stay in communication with itself.

What is the Royal Road?

400

In the 2016 video game Overwatch developed by Blizzard entertainment studios, Mr. Ferolito reached grandmaster by playing this character:

Who is Reinhardt?

500

I created the world’s first empire

Who was Sargon of Akkad / Sargon the Great?

500
This civilization was a crossroads of trade because of its central location.
What is Babylon?
500
The group who created a new alphabet and traded purple cloth.
What are the Phoenicians?
500

In Psalm 137, the Jews are so angry with the Babylonians that they urge each other to:

What is bash Babylonian children against the rocks?

500

Despite his brutality and cruel nature, and completely contradictory to who the empire was, the Assyrian king Assurbanipal built the world's first:

What is a library?